1/12

1/13

12:00 pm Family Prayer Group

1/14

10:00 am Fine Arts Committee

6:30 pm Innovation Generation

1/15

11:15 am Church Staff Meeting

7:00 pm Communications Commission

ANNOUNCEMENTS

UNHANGING OF THE GREENS will be done on Saturday, January 11 from 10 to 11 am. Please come to help put away the holiday decorations. In an effort to get everyone home quickly following worship last Sunday, this was rescheduled.

MILKSHAKES ON SUNDAY! Thank you for your generous donations in December. The Sunday School offering is money for milk at 14th and Chestnut. Recently there have been 70 to 80 children a day getting a snack and supper at the Center. This is a minimum of 1 gallon of milk and 70 paper cups used each day which is $7- $8. Please give generously. Sunday School Superintendent, Sandy Mead, is offering a challenge – if we get $35 (all classes) or more a week in offering, there will be a milkshake party each month!

The next annual meeting of the congregation of Central Presbyterian Church and of the members of our church corporation (Central Presbyterian Church, Inc., of Terre Haute, Indiana) (the “corporation”), will be held in the church sanctuary immediately following 10:30 a.m. worship (that is, approximately 11:30 a.m.) on Sunday, January 26, 2014. Among other items of business that will come before that annual meeting, the session (and the board of directors of the corporation) will seek the approval by the congregation’s active members (and the members of the corporation) of Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws for the corporation. The proposed restatement of and amendments to the Articles ofIncorporation of the corporation and the proposed amendments to the current Bylaws are intended to conform those documents, as nearly as possible, to the existing Indiana Code(Title 23) and the Constitution of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), including Part I (The Bookof Confessions) and Part II (The Book of Order), and to reconcile Indiana statutory law with the nomenclature and polity of The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Copies of the existing Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws are available in the church office and are posted in the church’s Fellowship Hall, as are copies of the proposed Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation and amended Bylaws. Copies of the proposed Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation and amended Bylaws may also be found in the church’s 2013 Annual Report, which are available for pickup in the Fellowship Hall.

The Per Capita (denomination’s administrative expenses per member) this year is $29.33 per active member. Please assist the church by paying this early in the year.

As the new technology is being used, especially for the electronic distribution of the Herald and e-news, we have learned that the church office needs email addresses updated and to know what publications you want to receive. Please email the office (cpcoffice@thcpc.org) if you want to receive the monthly Herald newsletter by email, the weekly e-news by email, and/or occasional church news updates by email. All of this information is on the THCPC (www.thcpc.org) website. If you prefer to view it without receiving an email, please unsubscribe. Thanks so much.

A Special Evening Prayer Service will be offered at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church on January 12 at 3:00 pm. This will be the second presentation that day of a new musical work, “The Baptism of Christ”, composed by Daniel Powers for choir, organ and oboe. The work takes inspiration from and art quilt alter hanging designed by the late Rosemary England; it takes St. Matthew’s version of Jesus’ baptism as its text. All are invited. Light refreshments will follow.

Happy Birthday to:

Lectionary readings for January 12

Reminders for Sunday, January 12

Liturgist: Jill Conner

Children’s Moment: Josh Powers

Greeters:

Ushers: Youth

Hosts: Jim & Shirley Slutz

Session Open and Close: Eileen Whalen, Linda Shaw

KOININIA PRAYER LIST

PRAYER REQUESTS (joys and concerns) should be called in or e-mailed to the church office. You can also place a request in the offering plate – or write it on the pew pad in worship. With your permission, they will be listed in the Koinonia prayer list, and announced in worship so that the church family can pray for the mentioned needs. Please keep the office updated on the requests.

CELEBRATIONS

Congratulations to Jonathan Rudy and Katie Alms on their engagement!

Thank you to so many that have worked together during the extreme winter weather to care for the church building, the staff, and each other. Thanks also to everyone that cleared walks and filled the needs of worship and fellowship time last Sunday during the snowfall. We are thankful for the warmer temperatures and melting!

NEW REQUESTS

Donna Wilson, readmission to IUPUI hospital with complications following surgery

Nancy Rubey, successful knee replacement surgery

Safe havens for those who do not have warm shelter during the winter weather